Presentation Slides for Transitioning to a BI role
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Transitioning to a BI role” at the PASS SQL Saturday Charlotte. The abstract is below. Another...
2013-10-21
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James Serra's Blog
Presentation Slides for Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” at the PASS Summit 2013. The abstract is below. It...
2013-10-21
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PASS Summit 2013
The PASS Summit 2013 is almost here! Check out all the great sessions and speakers. I feel very fortunate to be able to speak...
2013-10-10
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Data Warehouse Maturity Model
I have talked about the Business Intelligence Maturity Model (see Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment), but I wanted to dig further into...
2013-10-08
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Does Business Intelligence equal Data Warehousing?
I have seen many times at clients where the terms business intelligence and data warehousing are used interchangeably. In reality, these...
2013-10-03
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I’m a Microsoft SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP)!
I have been honored to be chosen a Microsoft SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Here is a video on my...
2013-10-01
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SQL Server 2014: Partition Improvements
SQL Server 2014 has enhancements to two common database maintenance operations:Partition Switching and Online Index Rebuild. This will greatly increase...
2013-09-26
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Data Warehouse vs Master Data Managment
Sometimes I see confusion on the difference between a data warehouse (DW) and master data management (MDM). Below is a...
2013-09-24
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Power BI for Office 365 preview released
I first blogged about Power BI for Office 365 two months ago (see Power BI for Office 365) when it was...
2013-09-19
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SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – August 2013 update
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) has a new update:
VS 2010: August 2013 version: 10.3.30822.0, June 2013 version: 10.3.30618.1, December 2012 version: 10.3.21208.0,...
2013-09-17
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
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